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Our main competition is LA Tech if its a two division all sports format.

The problem is land use around the stadium. Scattered parking = scattered tailgating = diminished game day experience = low attendance.

City Hotel Occupancy Tax dollars could be used to fund a parking garage at the convention center. Just saying.

I know your wrong. The number one goal of this meeting is to determine if it going to be a football only or all sports merger. UTEP AD has made that pretty public. The sub-title of the thread maybe a bit of an oversell, but you can't deny the premise of the original post. They will also decide what conditional next steps to take. Like which way they will all vote on the BCS revisions. What steps to take if there are no AQs. They aren't going to announce which team is coming in, they are going to try to resolve the keys issues about what kind of merger this is going to be, which shapes what schools they are looking to add.

Y'all do know the City of Denton rents out those light pole banners. Same thing with downtown Ft. Worth.

The CUSA front office would probably like to see a DFW area team. Central time zone and easy to travel to location have to appeal to every AD. And UTEP isn't switching conferences. Their AD has been pretty clear about wanting to continue with a Texas tie-in, but would move the team over as part of a merger, but not a conference switch.

The product of the merger won't necessary be a new league. They could easily stay with a scheduling alliance model to keep the votes, other sports auto-bids, and BCS payouts. Both conferences need to do something proactive. The SEC is going to go to 16, and the Big 12 is going to get back to 12, starting a whole new wave of realignment. They have to something to make the merger more attractive to keep from losing another team to the Big East.

Suess is missing the point on the hill by mistaking it as an attack on the frats. The problem with hill is engineering or specifically topography. Note the other posters pointing out like the need for pathways up the thing or to the alumni center. The hill is completely under utilized. Anyone every walked to the true top and noticed the empty acreage up there? It either needs to be flatten or craved up into tiers, and ultimately made taller. And the point of parking garages isn't to tailgate in them. Its to get people close to the stadium and have a more efficient use of space. And lots of University have parking garages close to their stadiums. We have a fundamental structural challenge that forces fragmented tailgating and takes away from the game day experience.

We are days away from the MWC-CUSA merger meetings and there are a few main issues to workout. 1. Will it be an all sports merger? 2. Will Hawaii get to bring in their other sports? 3. Will there be two division or four divisions? These are the questions that will shape what they are looking for in a new program to add. So my question for the board is what do you expect the MWC-CUSA to do?

That's the point, they could have cash parking at the stadium. The idea of baseball vs parking is a false choice. The real answer is build a parking garage. And the hill blows. The fact that its hard to access and you have to drop stuff off a day in advance impediments to higher promotions attendance. Has someone wrote earlier college football is about two things; on the field product, and game day experience.

No, getting to the stadium is a pain. 1. No option to pay cash to park at the stadium. 2. Odd traffic flow to get to Fouts. 3. Pay too much to park at Fouts. 4. Odd scattered tailgating at Fouts. 5. No direct side walk from Fouts to Apogee. Just an odd windy path that takes you do the music/armadillo. And once you cross the bridge you have to compete with cars and peddle cabs to get to the stadium. *side note: I like the peddle cabs, but have you tried drinking on them? Harder than you think. So yeah "marginal" fans, like everyone's wife, kids, and friend they brought to game says this sucks.

I think stadium location and parking are huge problems for everyone. 1. They need more parking at the stadium. 2. They need cash parking at the stadium. 3. They need free shuttles to run from Fouts parking to the stadium. 4. Drop the price on Fouts parking. ($5 bucks if we have to keep hiking). I think tailgating blows at Apogee 1. Bulldoze that stupid hill & build a tail gating park 2. Consolidate the beer tents. Why is Miller Lite out in BFE. 3. Give away free tailgating stuff. Beer, hot dogs, face painting, ect. 4. Provide bathrooms. Why the outside stadium bathrooms by the ticket office is locked makes no sense.

How is calling for the top ten teams to make the BCS bowls the same as saying that "other" conferences don't play in the bowls. Delany is a jackass.

Shouldn't this thread be moved to the high school forum?

Your problem is with the ranking formula, not the BCS concept. And what poll had any team other than Bama #2? Don't get me wrong I think being a conference champion should be a requirement to be in the title game, but that's simply a tweak to the rankings and not a problem with the actual BCS concept. And let's also say that "create interest in college football" also means make a lot of money for the partner conferences.

Really can't argue with that. The BCS did what it was created to do.

I'm not buying Temple & FIU. 1. No other media outlet has picked up the story. A few blogs have linked to the original article, but no one else is confirming, including the Philly & Miami press. 2. It doesn't make sense the merger as it stands is 17 football teams, 16 all sports. 19 football teams doesn't make sense. I'm not buying Utah State or San Jose State (or as they are known, San Hose State) 1. The MWC had their shot to add USU & SJSU and passed. Rumor was they liked USU, but didn't want SJSU for the 12. And the truth was they didn't need those team. 2. The "western" merger options don't bring a media market. The merger is about increasing conference profile, not just assembling everyone who's left out of the BCS. 3. Neither of these schools are going to boost the conference's strength of schedule or general perception. 4. If they are going with two 9 team divisions it makes more sense to move UTEP to the western division that elevate a competitor in the west. 5. I don't think the merger wants to kill the WAC. The merged league would consist of: East Carolina, Marshall, Memphis, Rice, Southern Miss, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB and UTEP from C-USA and Air Force, Colorado State, New Mexico, UNLV and Wyoming from the Mountain West along with new members Fresno State, Hawaii and Nevada. I think it makes more sense to go to an all sports league, move UTEP to the west, and add either UNT or LA Tech.

"Missing out on bowl hurts player development" http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls10/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id=5921827

With an extra month of practice SMU has to be the early favorite to win CUSA next season. What's funny is Dodge did better the last time he coached against SMU, when they threw on every down.

SHSU? Did you just spell it San Hose State University?

Southlake is a one HS school town by design. They're aren't going to change that.

Really you spent thousands on dollars on next seasons tickets? Even playing 2-1's your going to end up with seasons when your short a home game.

I agree all D1/FBS teams should only play other D1/FBS teams. Texas Southern is unacceptable. And if we are going to allow cream-puffs in our house, then why weren't they the stadium opener? But were talking about one game. Other schools pad their schedules with fcs fluff, so it makes sense that we do the same given we are playing two top ten ranked teams for OOC games next season. The whine of 5 vs 6 games is just that. We have historically only played 5 home games, and in case you haven't noticed its really hard to get home-at-home games AQ schools. And the truth is we can't afford to bring schools in for a a one off game. And we definitely can't afford to bring in Oregon (The "Cowboys Classic" paid the ducks $2 million to come play for a national audience in Arlington). The lack of a 6th home game is more of a reason to get into a 12-team conference to create some scheduling flexibility.

Wrinkled hundred dollar bills. Future home-at-home series with SMU and Army, yet we complain.

So I guess San Jose State wasn't the missing piece of the puzzle. We all know it down to UNT and LA Tech.